Geostorm Best Quotes – ‘This wasn’t a malfunction, it was intentional.’

Story: Action disaster directed, produced and co-written by Dean Devlin in his feature debut. When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth’s survival the world’s leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. After successfully protecting the planet for two years, something is starting to go wrong.

The system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it. Two estranged brothers, Jake and Max Lawson (Gerard Butler and Jim Sturgess) are tasked with solving the program’s malfunction before a worldwide Geostorm can engulf the planet. A trip into space follows, while on Earth a plot to assassinate the president begins to unfold.

Senate Committee Member: The Senate Committee will now hear from Jacob Lawson, Climate ISS Chief Coordinator. May the record reflect that he was nearly one hour late.Jake Lawson: Yeah, sorry about that. I literally had to fly in from outer space.

President Andrew Palma: Thanks to a system of satellites, natural disasters have become a thing of the past. We can control our weather.

Leonard Dekkom: Mr. President, one of our thermospheric satellites malfunctioned over Afghanistan.President Andrew Palma: So your proposal is what?Dr. Jennings: We shut down all satellites.

Max Lawson: I don’t need to remind you how many people died from catastrophic climate conditions.

President Andrew Palma: Make sure there’s no further incidents.

Hannah Lawson: Are you going back up to space?Jake Lawson: Think of it like I’m taking a vacation.Hannah Lawson: To a place two hundred and fifty miles straight up and negative four hundred and fifty degrees. Some holiday.Hannah Lawson: Yeah, you got a point.

Hannah Lawson: Are you going back up to space?Jake Lawson: But I’m coming back. I promise.

[to Jake as he’s about to lift off into space]NASA Pilot: Have a safe trip, sir. Just don’t touch anything.

Ute Fassbinder: This is Mr. Jake Lawson.Duncan: The Jake Lawson?Hernandez: You look much older than I would have thought. I mean, you look good. Am I getting fired?

Ute Fassbinder: This wasn’t a malfunction, it was intentional.Jake Lawson: Somebody intentionally did this?

Max Lawson: My access has been blocked.NASA Tech: So a satellite has a bad comm, that happens.Max Lawson: Not a satellite, all of them.

Cheng: There’s potential for catastrophic weather events on a global scale. A geostorm.

Jake Lawson: We built a system of satellites to stop natural disasters and someone is using it to create them.

Jake Lawson: This was my life’s work, Max. You know, they said it was impossible, but we pulled it off. And it worked perfectly, without fail, day after day, year after year. So what do people do with it? Turn it into a gun.

Ray Dussette: Self-destruct? Why would you build that into the station?Jake Lawson: In case it fell to Earth.

Jake Lawson: If you don’t stop, there’s not going to be a planet to spend it on.Duncan Taylor: Please. We’re going to keep all the best bits.

Leonard Dekkom: How in hell did you… How?President Andrew Palma: Because I’m the goddamn President of the United States of America.